Innovations in Culturally Based Science Education Through Partnerships and Community

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Title

Innovations in Culturally Based Science Education Through Partnerships and Community

Abstract/Description

A growing body of educational research demonstrates the need to address diverse ways of knowing in teaching and learning environments in order to improve school achievement for groups of students who have historically been placed at risk. Central to this growing body of work has been evolving conceptions and methodologies for studying cultural processes in the learning environments in which children live. To test these ideas we have developed a research partnership among the American Indian Center of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin. Our chapter will review the methodological and conceptual issues associated with these ideas and the ways in which it specifically plays out when conducting research with Indigenous communities. We will explore the possibilities that new configurations and approaches to research can expand diversity and simultaneously deepen fundamental knowledge. The chapter will explore the collaboration issues we have struggled with in the design of research studies, implementation of studies, and data collection and analysis. We also analyze methodological challenges and advances our collaboration has posed to cognitive science research. Finally, our chapter will explore the benefits to community and university partners that often are unspoken in the research enterprise.

Author/creator

Bang, Megan

Medin, Douglas

Washinawatok, Karen

Chapman, Shannon

Date

2010

In publication

New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education

Editor

Khine, Myint Swe

Saleh, Issa M.

Pages

569-592

Publisher

Springer

Resource type

Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Theoretical

en Methodological

Keywords

science education

community member

design team

Indigenous community

Native people

IRE Approach/Concept

Community-Based Design (CBD)

Participatory Action Research (PAR)

Featured case/project

Cultural Context of Learning: Native American Science Education (CCL)

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en No

ISBN

978-1-4419-5716-0

Other unique identifier

10.1007/978-1-4419-5716-0_28

URL

Publisher Website

Grant funding

Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant number

NSF ROLE Grant #0815222

NSF REESE Grant 08015020

Citation

Bang, M., Medin, D., Washinawatok, K., & Chapman, S. (2010). Innovations in Culturally Based Science Education Through Partnerships and Community. In M. S. Khine & I. M. Saleh (Eds.), New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education (pp. 569–592). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5716-0_28

Place

New York, NY

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